To bring this topical volume together, the editor asked leading scholars in the field of globalization to outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The resulting book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization. Theoretical reviews are complemented by substantive chapters and methodological analyses that are unusual in an edited volume. Contributors include distinguished scholars of globalization with international reputations in the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and political science. These writings have been organized into four sections: theoretical perspectives and cultural globalization, economic globalization, political globalization, and methodological approaches. The extensive coverage and the interdisciplinary flavor of the volume make it suitable for a large interdisciplinary audience.

Number of contributors are prominent scholars of globalization with international reputations and recognizable names Presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization Theoretical reviews are complemented by substantive chapters and methodological analyses that tends to be unusual in an edited volume Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Zusammenfassung
For this volume the editor asked leading scholars in the field of globalization to outline a "research framework" reflecting their own approach to the subject. The resulting book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization.

Inhalt
Theoretical Perspectives.- Globalization as an Historical and a Dialectical Process.- Microglobalization.- A Transnational Framework for Theory and Research in the Study of Globalization.- Global Systems, Globalization, and Anthropological Theory.- The Eigenstructures of World Society and the Regional Cultures of the World.- Global Complexities.- Economic and Political Processes.- Trajectories of Trade and Investment Globalization.- Globalization and Uneven Development.- Globalization and Disintegration: Substitutionist Technologies and the Disintegration of Global Econnomic Ties.- Social Integration, System Integration, and Global Governance.- Globalization, Terrorism, and Democracy: 9/11 and Its Aftermath.- Studying Globalization: Methodological Approaches.- Finding Frontiers in Historical Research on Globalization.- Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization.- Three Steps Toward a Viable Theory of Globalization.- Situating Global Social Relations.- Toward a Framework for Global Communication: Durkheim, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and the Construction of Place and Space.- Commentaries and Discussion.- Globalization: In Search of a Paradigm.- A New Global Age, but Are There New Perspectives on It?.- Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere.- Rationalization and Globalization in Neo-Weberian Perspective.- From Cosmopolitanism to a Global Perspective: Paradigmatic Discontinuity (Beck, Ritzer, Postmodernism, and Albrow) Versus Continuity (Alexander and Collins) and Emergent Conceptualizations (Contributors to This Volume).